Facing Race Conference

Facing Race is the nation’s largest multiracial, intergenerational racial justice conference. This biennially, one-of-a-kind space serves as a vital intersection where community organizers, activists, and movement makers converge to build power and strategies to advance racial justice. The conference provides attendees unprecedented access to resources, information, and collaborative opportunities geared towards advancing racial equity for all.

Facing Race 2026 is dedicated to nurturing a space that unites people movements, and communities to collaboratively build  a racially just world. Through this gathering, we aim to:

Elevate the strategies, tools, and resources from local and national racial justice leaders, strategists, activists, and organizers needed to resist and dismantle systems of oppression, while building solidarity and liberation. 

Honor and celebrate the collective struggle and wins, and the inherent power of our movement by grounding attendees in our shared history and stories. 
Strengthen and build cross-movement connections and infrastructure to deepen solidarity rooted in a shared vision of liberation and thriving.

We are honored to convene Facing Race 2026 in Raleigh, North Carolina, where the land, the people, and the history remind us what it means to be deeply rooted. Known as the “City of Oaks,” Raleigh symbolizes the resilience of communities whose strength lies in roots that cannot be eliminated. By gathering in Raleigh, we honor the South not only as a site of historic struggle, but also as a place of imagination and movement-building that continues to shape the path forward. Here, the roots of civil rights organizing run deep—and they continue to rise in power.